Weymouth store robbed; woman, 85, is carjacked in Hingham

Just minutes after two masked men brandishing handguns robbed Previte’s Marketplace on Friday afternoon on Route 53 in Weymouth, one of the robbers carjacked an 85-year-old woman from nearby Linden Ponds, a nursing home and senior citizens’ residence in Hingham, police said.

Just minutes after two masked men brandishing handguns robbed Previte’s Marketplace on Friday afternoon on Route 53 in Weymouth, one of the robbers carjacked an 85-year-old woman from nearby Linden Ponds, a nursing home and senior citizens’ residence in Hingham, police said.

Police caught and arrested one of the men and are still searching for the man who assaulted the elderly woman and stole the car before abandoning it in Quincy, according to statements from Weymouth and Hingham police.

Witnesses told police that at about 3:30 p.m. two masked black males with handguns robbed the popular meat market and grocery store. The timing of the robbery forced nearby Weymouth schools to go into a lockdown mode and order school buses turned around back to campus.

Weymouth police said they arrested Angelo J. Ayuso, 26, of Bowdoin Street in Dorchester, and charged him with armed robbery while masked. Ayuso was being held at Weymouth police headquarters on $100, 000 bail.

Hingham police said Ayuso’s accomplice had climbed over a barbed wire fence into the Linden Ponds parking lot, where he approached the elderly woman’s 2000 Lincoln Town Car, opened the door and demanded her keys, while pulling her out of the car and throwing her onto the pavement.

The man then sped off toward Derby Street, police said. The car was later recovered in Quincy, but police did not say what part of Quincy.

The victim of the carjacking was injured in the attack and taken by family members to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment, said Hingham police Sgt. Steven Dearth. She was listed in good condition Friday night.

Weymouth police later recovered the money and one of the firearms in the wooded area near where Ayuso was arrested. They also located some of the clothing the suspects were wearing during the robbery.

Neighbors who live in Queen Anne’s Gate apartment complex, near Previte’s and where police arrested Ayuso, said the police presence was massive.

“There were police and police dogs everywhere,” said Corina Hawes, an 11-year-old, who stood with her friend’s mother, Jamie McCannon.

McCannon said her daughter, who attends Talbot Primary School in Weymouth, was delayed more than 30 minutes when school officials declared a lockdown.

School buses were turned around, and parents were notified by telephone not to come to school to pick up their children, said McCannon.

Hawes said students at her school, Abigail Adams Middle School, were also in lockdown on a “code red,” a drill students have practiced before, she said.

Ledger reporter Grant Tyson contributed to this story. Chris Burrell may be reached at cburrell@ledger.com or follow him on Twitter @Burrell_Ledger.